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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
IS HE IN POLITICS?
Uneasiness Among the Blainiacs" +" as
Ex-senator Conkling's Intentions.

Uneasiness Among the " Blainiacs" as to
Ex-senator Conkling's Intentions.
There may be yet more grief in store
for the Blainiacs. A new figure looms
up whom Blaine thought he had left
hors de combat. It is no less a person
than Roscoe Conkling, who is still not
by any means an old man. That he is
a power in the party nobody denies.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Record has been looking the matter up.
He says:
It would not be q matter Of surprise to the
veteran politicians II Mr. Conkling should turn
up at Albany as candidate for election to the
United States Senate-though it would be in
the nature Of an unpleasant surprise for Mr..
Blaine. notice that our Roscoe is again CIV
ing close attention to his attire, and that he
wears good clothes, trims his beard and
changes his necktie frequently. These signs,
in the case OF widower, always indicate
matrimony, and with Mr.. Conkling, may be
taken for an intention to again coquet with
politics and WOO the Republican majority In
the Legislature. Besides, he has made q snug
little sum in the last six years, and has laid by
and safely invested 300 900 for his old age, his
wife having as much more in her own right. So
Mr.. Conklng. at hfty-eight, alert, handsome
and eloquent, whose bugle blast is worth 10000
men to his party any day, may safely aspire to
the Senate as New York's only great Repub-
ican leader, and not unreasonably he may
have an eye upon the Presidency.
Conkling would naturally take the
place of Logan as astalwart leader. He
will be even more formidable, for he
has no recent quarrels to heal up as
Logan's courage had made him. Conk-
ling's quarrels were not so noble and
creditable as Logan's, but they were
not so recent. He is incomparably SUI
perior to Blaine in every manly trait.
He would not be driven to so many
personal explanations involving down.
right -falseAeed.- may have
learned to dislike politics, and he may
also have no aspirations higher than
the Senate. He might give the New
York Blaine henchmen some trouble on
that score. Blaine can't afford to let
Conkling back into public life on any
terms or for any purpose. Preconceived
purposes and final acts do not always
correspond in magnitude.
Our advice to the unhappy storm
driven Blaine boomers is to keep a
weather eye on Conkling. His motives
may be the most innocent in the world
But even then he may experience new
motives. Where power is ample and
nothing is lacking but a motive it is
safe to look out. Motives come with
strange suddenness and from strange
sources sometimes. 1t is a pity for the
Blaine people. Their distress is ex-
treme, and has led them to do some
questionable things of late in order to
save their candidate at least until con-
vention time. They had long siege
trying to get him nominated. and then
failed to get him elected, and any fur
ther disasters are cruel to the extent Of
exciting sympathy even among bitter
enemies.-D es Moi,aes Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
Barefooted in Midwinter.

"Oh, yes, they say he's very rich now.
Still, l knew the time when he used to
walk around barefooted in midwin-
ter
"In his early boyhood. may bep"
"Oh, no. Since he's married"
"Impossible, Mrs. Bascomb. Why,
when?'
"At nights, when the baby had the
collie. .'-Puilodelphia Call.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Mayor Grace, Of New York, recon-
mends the teaching Of type-writing IL
the public schools.
u. A. Bostwick, Of New York, has
presented to the Wake Forest College.
N. c., $500 in addition to $40. 900
given some time ago.
An order of deaconnesses. similar
to that now in operation in Europe, "a
projected by the Lutheran Church.
The VOW is terminable at will.-M r
Witness.
Rev. Joseph Freeman. d. D., who
is more than eighty-four years old. has
engaged to preach for year to the
Baptist Church in Colchester. -x A.
bans W. Messenger.
There is one school to every l,S00
persons in Austria, one to every 500 in
France, one to every 700 in Germany.
and one to every 600 in Great Britain,
Italy ard Spain.
The French Minister Of Public In
struction has,ordered that capable and
diligent young students Of modern Ian
guages be sent to Germany and Eng
land at the expense of the State.
-Ihe most heavliy endowed eduoa-
nonal institutions IN the United osases
are: Girard College. so. 900. 600; Co
lumbia, $1,000, 600; Johns Hopkins, a.
0O0, 600 Harvard, &S.000, 900; Prince
Ton, $S,ooV.U Lenlgn' $i,oVV'VVO'
Corneii, u, aoV'oV
Inns Is the way the e3-slaves OF tne
-
ooutn express proiound tnougns y
simple language ~ Ptnse meeune
1oo say yos yo.le mv ,Ioes'ls 1oe1 g sne .4's-'
Then why don't You stop tellin' lies,
Yes, my Lordr
~. 4. 1ysosssc.
while LORD Lensdaie was IN NeW
York an American expressed surPr1se
TO the Earl that SO young man snouio
be 1n:rusted with apsolnte power 70
apPoin, tnirty cnra1es 70 cnurcn nsings
IN England. ~, appoint iorSy-SWo
curates, said the nonio LORD, and
very particular am, too, about tneir
moral character ~ =. lrsosee.
-ihe Legislature OF onio mas pro
vlded 1or the estaniisnment oI an m
dustrial school for tne eoucanon OF tne
oilnd IN tnat otate. ~ Is not
to take the place Of tne asy-
lum where the blind children receive
instruction, but Is designed TO instruct
them III mechanical industries mat wiii
enable tnem to earn their own nvlng:
-Ihs Berlin VotSsseun1g complains
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
BEN Ahmar was recently rewarde

Ben Ahmar was recently rewarded
with the cross of the Legion of Honor
for bravery as a lion-killer. In Algeria,
in twenty-six years. he killed over 200
lions One lion is estimated to destroy
10000 francs worth of capital annually
and to keep it up for ten years at least;
so the lion-killer saved Algeria about
10000, 900 francs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
Archbishop Whately once

-Archbishop WhateIy once asked a
roomful of divines why white sheep
ate so very much more than black
sheep. One person advanced the opin-
ion that, black being warmer color
than white, and one which never fails
forcibly to attract the sun, black sheep
could do with less nutriment than their
white contemporaries. At these pro-
found speculations DR.. Whately shook
his head gravely, and then proceeded
to explain: white sheep eat more
because there are more of them. -
N. Y. Ledger.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
WASHINGTON.

The circulation of the standard silver
dollar is steadily decreasing. The amount
outstanding on the 2sth, s5s, ,634, ,267, is over
$4,000, 900 less than the amount outstanding
January /, 1887.
The report of the Sixth Auditor of the re-
ceipts and disbursements of the Post-offlce
Department for the quarter ended Septem-
Der 30, 1886, shows as follows: Receipts
I'll, 1,072,y4S; expenditures, s12, 767, ,596; excess
Of expenditures over receipts, 81 .694. .64S
For the corresponding quarter of 1885 the
excess Of expenditures over receipts was
81, 393, no.
The new IS silver certificate is nearly
ready for issue. They contain vignette Of
General Grant on the face and fac-similies
OF five silver dollars in group on the back
The collection Of internal revenue during
the first six months of the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1886, was So, sos, SOB, being de-
crease Of 1,054, $40 as compared with the
corresponding period of the previous fiscal
year. The aggregate receipts for Decem-
ber, 1886, were S261 1,s31 less than those for
December, 1885, the decrease being mainly
In collections on spirits.
The National Legislative Committee of
the Knights of Labor on the 26th sent to the
President communication urging him to
veto the Interstate Commerce bill.
ihO SCCfctdfy VI 6uS Treasury on the SOUQ
appointed Jesse u. Abrahams, of Virginia,
to be Deputy Comptroller of the Currency,
to succeed " P. Snyder, who was appointed
bank examiner at New York some time ago.
Charles G.. Ames has been appointed
special agent Of the Treasury for duty at
San Francisco.
In the secret session of the Senate on the
18th the nomination of j. c. Matthews, Of
Albany, as Recorder of Deeds for the Dis
trict OF Columbia, was again rejected. The
vote is understood to have been II to 81.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill re-
ported to the Senate appropriates s22,00O,-
S56. AS passed by the House the bill ap-
propriates sl9, ,753,411.
At the session of the National Woman
Suffrage Association in Washington on the
9th, series of resolutions were adopted
demanding the passage Of Sixteenth
amendment to the Constitution, which shall
secure the right of suffrage to women of
the United States; denouncing the disfran.
ehisement Of women, and thanking the
United States Senators who supported the
suffrage amendment.
The Comptroller Of the Currency has
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
FoREIoN INTELLIGENCE.

Director Thorne, Of the Cordova ObservA.
tory, South America, discovered on Janu-
ary Is, comet supposed to be the one OBJ
served at Melbourne three days later. tits
in the constellation Grees and resembles
the great comet discovered in 1880 by DR..
Gould, of the same observatory.
Cardinal Caverat, Archbishop Of Lyons,
France, is dead, aged eighty-one.
Dispatches from Brisbane, the capital of
Queensland, state that the colony has been
swept by u fearful cyclone, accompanied by
rainfall Of extraordinary copiousness,
causing disastrous floods. In the city OF
Brisbane some Of the thoroughfares were
submerged to depth Of tw eAty feet. The
reports say that many persons have been
drowned.
Late Tonquin advices state that Colonel
Brissaud had carried the rebel position at
Mikae Than Hoa, and five hundred insur-
gents were killed. The French were pur-
suing the rebels.
Mr.. Gladstone has proposed . resolution
Affirming the general principle Of Home
Rule, which Chamberlain and Trevelyan
will be asked to accept on the resumption of
the Gladstonian-U -Unionist conference. If
the Radical Unionists accede to the resolu-
ton it will be proposed in the House of
Commons at the earliest possible moment
in the coming session.
Three Thousand miners at Airdrie, Scot
land, have struck for an advance of shil-
ling per day. The strike has occasioned
excitement among the colliers throughout
Scotland.
Great excitement prevails throughout
Chill at the appearance of cholera on its
boundaries. Strict quarantine is enforced
against vessels coming from suspected
ports and the passes on the Argentine
frontier are closed, but the disease, it ap-
pears, has surmounted all barriers and
reached the Pacific slope.
The official count Of the vote in the Par
bamentary election IN the Exchange divis-
ion Of Liverpool on the 27th, show that Mr..
Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was
defeated by just seven votes.
The schooner c. Graham, from Bermuda,
was driven ashore on Shad Bay shoals, N.
s., a few days ago and dashed to pieces.
She had q crew of six men and possibly
some passengers, all of whom were lost.
The schooner was owned by parties in Hal
ifax, and commanded by Captain Coleridge,
of that CITY
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03

Here was an aggregate appropria-
ton in eight years of more than $780,
0,0Oo. During that period the Brit
isb Government expended about twice
as much money on its navy, and it had
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03

You are picturing rather gloomy
future for me, madam" he said to the
fortune-teller. eyes, SIR she replied;
"but it's the best l can do for half
dollar, ''-HQrper's Bazaar.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

Two hundred cans OF giant powder eX-
ploded while in transit over the Missouri
Pacific railroad near Fort Scott, Kan, early
on the morning of the 25th. The train con-
sisted Of twenty-three freight cars; fifteen
of them were completely demolished and
the magazine car was blown to atoms. One
brakeman was instantly killed. 1t is esti-
mated that $4,000 worth of plate glass and
window glass at Fort Scott was shattered.
Many thought it was an earthquake and
left their beds and ran from their houses
panic stricken.
Judge N. L. Chaffee, a prominent member
of the Jefferson County (O.) bar and an ex-
member,of the Ohio Legislature, died on
the 25th.
A bill was introduced in the Michigan
House on the 26th permitting soldiers
wives to enter the State Soldiers Home. 1t
limits the admission to the wives Of soldiers
married prior to 1866.
Postmaster Francis E. Sharp, Of Oconto,
Wis, has been arrested, charged with hav-
ing rifled a large number of registered let
ters, securing sum variously estimated at
from $500 to $1,000.
| The Texas Legislature on the Goth passed
bill appropriating 500, 600 for the relief of
the drouth sufferers in that State. The
measure received the necessary two-thirds
majority to give it immediate effect.
The Cincinnati Exposition commissioners
have voted to not hold an exposition in 1887,
but to recommend to the several bodies by
whom they are appointed to hold centen-
NAL exposition in 1883, to celebrate the first
settlement of Ohio in 17SS.
Officers from New Castle, Pa, arrested
Bill Sharp, a noted desperate, in Almena
township, Van Buren, County, Mich, on the
25th. He is wanted for burglarizing the
house of an aged couple near New Castle
last August, robbing them of nearly sc, ,0OO
His pals are in prison.
John W. Mackay, of the Postal Telegraph
Company, has purchased the Bay and Coast
Telegraph Line, belonging to the South Pa
cific Coast Railroad Company, which runs
from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. The
price is not mentioned.
D. NJ. Kendrick, general passenger agent
of the New York Central railroad, and late
of the Delaware & Hudson Company, died
| of consumption in Georgia few days ago
The Des Moines brewers have again
closed their retail bars, having discovered
that while State could not interfere in a
cause that had been transferred to the Fed
eral court there was nothing to prevent its
| beginning another cause like it.
Miss Georgiana Bruce Kirby died al
Santa Cruz, Cal, on the eth. She was
formerly member Of the famous Brook
! Farm community, and wrote the Brook
! Farm poetry.
| The joint resolution submitting pro
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
Y.

hibitory amendment to the constitution Of
the State has passed the Michigan Legisla-
ture. The question will be submitted at
the State election next April
A SUIT for $50, 900 was begun at Mansfield,
O., on the 9th by John Tohill against the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, for
damages sustained in the recent disaster at
Republic, o.
Robert DeCamp, William Marler and
James c. Kane were run into by a passen-
ger train on the Burlington Il Northern
railway while crossing the track at Nelson
Mimi, on the 9th. DeCamp was instantly
killed and the others fatally injured.
The grand jury at Cleveland, O., on the
9th returned an indictment for manslaugh-
ter against Benjamin 8. WHEELER, charged
with the murder of his wife last November.
At Springfield, KY, on the 9th Bud Cor
nish, dissolute character, called at the
house Of John Green, a farmer, and pro-
posed marriage to the latter's daughter
Lula, aged eighteen. She refused him and
he shot her dead. He was arrested after q
desperate fight with the officers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
Congressional.

WASHINGTON, jan 2S.-SENATE-A number
Of petitions were presented for the reduction
repeal of internal revenue taxes. The creden-
tials Of Senatorelect Quay, Pa.) were pre-
sented. The Committee on Privileges and
Elections was granted leave to sit during ses-
sions Of the Senate, to take testimony in the
Texas outrage case. Bills were reported incor-
porating the National Dental Association and
increasing the salaries of the Commissioners OF
Education and Labor to 5000. resolution
was introduced inquiring under what rule the
Pension Office declined to consider the claims
Of applicants who also applied to Congress for
relief. The act granting pensions to dependent
parents, soldiers, etc. was returned from the
House by request. The calendar was taken up,
and few private bills passed. Mr.. Beck's
railroad attorney bill was considered, several
Senators speaking. Two pension veto mes
sages were presented.
HoUSE.-The cable railroad bill for the dis
trict was passed. A conference report was
adopted changing the amount appropriated in
the militia bill from 100000 to $4,000. The
House In the committee of the whole took up
the pleuro-pneumonia bill, and, pending action,
adjourned the legislative day of Thursday,
which had been continued, over until Friday.
Fridays session was held in the evening for
pension bills.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29-SENATE.-The House
cable railroad bill was referred. The creden-
tials OF Senator Hawley were presented A bill
to define the limits of Yellowstone Park was
discussed without action until the end of the
morning hour. Beck's railroad attorney bill
was then taken up but consideration postponed
until Monday next by a vote of "a to 20. This
throws the bill to the foot of the calendar Con-
sideration of the Yellowstone Park bill was
then resumed.
HOUSE. thousand dollars were.appropriat-
ed for the distribution Of seeds In the drought
stricken counties Of Texas. Thursday next was
set apart for business from the Foreign Affairs
Committee and night session ordered on Tues
day for military affairs. A resolution was
adopted accepting the oath Of ofice subscribed
to in South Carolina by Representative Aiken,
who was unable to attend owing to illness. A
select committee report was made recommend
ing an amendment to the rules to prohibit lob
bying on the floor b. ex-members. The post
iotfee appropriation bill was taken up and de-
Dated
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
LATER NEWS.

Ar Kankakee, Ill, Frank Girard, pri-
yate watchman, was found dead in an al
ley in the rear Of dry goods store he was
guarding, with q bullet wound in, his
head.
LuD CORNISH, in Jail at Springfield, KY,
awaiting trial for numbering Miss Lulu
Green, and attempting to kill her mother,
was hanged by mob on the 30th.
A drum of diluted glycerine in the Chi
cago Glycerine Company's works at Chi
cago bursting resulted in the complete de-
struction of the works by fire. A watch
man was badly burned.
CHOLERA is sweeping OF large numbers
of stock hogs in Warren County, Ind.
An epidemic of measels is raging at
Wellington, O., and some serious cases are
reported.
The Government revenues for the pres
ent month will exceed those Of last Janu-
ary by at least S5,000,000.
A SEVERE blizzard is reported in Dakota
and Montana.
SIX new cases Of smallpox are reported
in New York.
BLACK diphtheria is raging ten miles
northeast of Madison, Wis.
TEE Chicago police think they have un-
Anarchists.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at christening
party at Pittsburgh, in which four Italians
were seriously cut.
Hon. GEORGE b. PENDLEToN, U. s. Min
lister to Germany, arrived at New York
Sunday on the steamship Saale.
THE Brooklyn police made q raid on a
Chinese tea store and captured seventy
four Chinese gamblers and $4,000 in cash.
A COMMITTEE of the Indiana Legislature
visited Battle Ground, near Lafayette,
on the 31st, to ascertain what legislation is
needed to put the historic spot in repair.
THE boiler in the shingle-miu owned by
Joseph Bros, of Lake View, Mich, ex-
ploded Saturday, demolishing the mill, in
stantly killing James o. Wilson and seri-
ously injuring James Joseph. Wilson'S
body was smashed into pulp.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-28
Picnic Near Brady.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

CORRESPONDENCE or the GaZette.
BRADY, TEX, June 24.-This has been
DAY pleasantly spent by the people of
cur town. At 1880 8. m. procession
composed Of the Masonic fraternity and
Eastern Star Chapter formed at their hail
and marched to the picnic grounds, q
short distance north of town, Whsre the
officers of Lodge 62S, a. f. and A. NJ f,
were duly installed for the ensuing Ma
sonic year. F. NJ. Miller,W. M; Charles
Harcourt, S. w; w. Z. Benson, j. W;
John R. MCGEE, treasurer; w. McShan,
secretary; S. 81. McCUn, S. D.; w. B.
EskriGge, J. D.; J. S. Evans, tyler.
officers elect were introduced by the
Marshal and installed, David Doole OF
Mason D. d. G. M, officiating in the
ceremonies. The good ladies Of Brady
and the surrounding country brought
their baskets well filed with good things.
Dinner was announced at y o'clock and
the large crowd ate to their hearts con-
tent of the rich Tepast. If there is any
one thing nose than another that our
ladies deserve credit for, it is in prepar-
ing good dinner and plenty of it, and
the gentlemen in being fully able to eat it.
After dinner was over the crowd assem-
bled under large pecan tree and listened
to an interesting address by Rev, Mr..
Potter OF San Angelo, on the principles
of F ee Masonry. Other speakers were
introduced, who amused and entertained
the listeners.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-28
TEXAS In TYPE.
Clippings from State Exchanges on Matters
of Interest.

or Interest.
Corn will be plentiful and cheap this
fall in Gonzales county.
Dublin wants an inter-cOuntY fair for
Erath, Comsnche and Hamilton counties
The chintz bug is working destruction
in some of the corn fields surrounding
Dawson.
Big crops, rains and lots of business
tinges the future of Midlothian with the
hues OF the rainbow.
Val Verde county proposes to build 8
courthouse costing not less than $685.
900, nor more than $50, 900
Lands around Dawson are selling fast
a. from $50 to S25 an acre. These lands
have never been cultivated.
1t is claimed that Brentwood will out
rank any town Of its size in the state for
pretty girls and in it's number of little
earthly angels.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop of
Hunt county will average about twenty
bushels per acre. 1t samples unusually
fine, and Greenville buyers are Offering 20
cents.
The indications now are that cotton
will make from three-fourths to one bale
per acre in Ellis county, From one-third
to one-haif is the average crop for this
section of the country.
In San Saba county the corn crop is
very promising at this time, and with
few more seasonable rains large crop
will be made. Early corn will make
fair yield with one more rain.
GreenYille Herald: 1t is now agreed
that the wheat crop was not ruined, the
corn crop is better than IL has been for
years, and the fruit crop is good. Still,
the croakers had all the fun they wanted
in the spring by declaring that starvation
stared the people in the face.
petition has been largely signed ask
ing the insurance companies to put Ter
rell back in the second class grade. Her
fire department and water facilities ere
said to be sufficient to warrant the town
in asking this OF the companies. 1t has
been recommended by local agents.
r. S. Williams has five acres planted in
cotton on his dry Lipan farm, twelve
miles south of San Angelo, the largest
screage OF cotton that has ever been
planted in the Concho country. Mr..
Williams thinks the yield will be as heavy
as in the Brezos country. 1t is now knee
high.
Work on the compress at GreenvilIe
goes steadily on. Six carloads OF costly
and powerful machiniry have arrived land
the material for all parts Of the building
is being put convenient fer use. Mr., P.
Moody is the contractor He estimates
that seventy carloads Of lumber will be
used in the construction.
The soil OF WiIbargar county is very
fertile. Wheat yields from eighteen to
thirty-tiYG bushels per acre; corn from
twenty to forty bushels; oats from thirty
to one hundred bushels; millet from one
TO three tons per acre, and other things
in proportion. Land is cheap, and when
put in cultivation is the most pleasant
soil to cultivate on earth. The abun-
dance Of grass and living water, and the
mild, short winters make stock farming
a profitable business.